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Associated Press:
Man shot by Cheney has minor heart attack … CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - The 78-year-old lawyer who was shot by Vice President Dick Cheney in a hunting accident has some birdshot lodged in his heart and he had a "minor heart attack," a hospital official said Tuesday.
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Daniela Deane / Washington Post:
Hunter Shot by Cheney Has Heart Attack — The 78-year-old lawyer who Vice President Cheney accidentally shot in a hunting accident suffered a minor heart attack this morning after a piece of birdshot moved and lodged in his heart, doctors said. — Doctors treating Harry Whittington …
Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Update 22: White House Finds Humor in Hunting Mishap — The White House has decided that the best way to deal with Vice President Dick Cheney's shooting accident is to joke about it. — President Bush's spokesman quipped Tuesday that the burnt orange school colors of the University …
Nedra Pickler / San Diego Union-Tribune:
Cheney issued a warning for breaking Texas hunting law — WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney has been given a warning citation for breaking Texas hunting law by failing to buy a $7 stamp allowing him to shoot upland game birds. — The warning came from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department …
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CNN:
Hunter shot by Cheney has 'minor heart attack' — Doctors: Birdshot moved to Harry Whittington's heart — CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (CNN) — The fellow hunter who was shot and wounded by Vice President Dick Cheney has suffered a "minor heart attack" after a piece of birdshot migrated to his heart, a hospital spokesman said Tuesday.
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Associated Press:
Hunter Shot by Cheney Has Heart Attack — CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - The 78-year-old lawyer wounded by Vice President Dick Cheney in a hunting accident suffered a mild heart attack Tuesday after a shotgun pellet in his chest traveled to his heart, hospital officials said.
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Mike Allen / Time:
Slow Leak: How Cheney Stalled News Reports of Hunting Accident — Word of the mishap took 20 hours to get out as the Vice President insisted on telling a local newspaper before everyone else, sources say … The Vice President was the press strategist, and Karl Rove was the investigative reporter.
Maria Newman / New York Times:
Hunter Shot by Cheney Suffers Mild Heart Attack — The 78-year-old lawyer who was accidentally shot by Vice President Dick Cheney on Saturday suffered a mild heart attack today after bird shot migrated to his heart, doctors in South Texas said, and he underwent a successful catheterization to determine the extent of the damage.
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
McClellan Takes Aim at Cheney — After a not-entirely-successful effort on Monday to explain the vice president's hunting accident, press secretary Scott McClellan reloaded this morning and took aim at Dick Cheney himself. — President Bush, he announced, would be on the South Lawn …
Brooks Barnes / Wall Street Journal:Cheney Accident Triggers Jokes on Late-Night TV
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Nick Wadhams / Associated Press:
Saudi Ambassador Comments on Bombings — NEW YORK — Saudi Arabia is in talks with Iran over its disputed nuclear program, Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States said on Monday. — Prince Turki al-Faisal, speaking before the Council on Foreign Relations in New York …
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Media Matters for America:
If It's Sunday, It's Conservative: An analysis of the Sunday talk show guests on ABC, CBS, and NBC, 1997 - 2005 — Executive Summary — The Sunday-morning talk shows on ABC, CBS, and NBC are where the prevailing opinions are aired and tested, policymakers state their cases …
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Michelle Malkin:
NEXT, THEY CAME FOR KFC — Much of the American mainstream media has grown bored with the story, but the Cartoon Jihad continues to boil over. AP reports on the worst violence in the Islamists' pretextual protests against the Mohammed Cartoons today in Pakistan: … Reuters coverage here.
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Joseph Kahn / New York Times:
In Rare Briefing, China Defends Internet Controls — BEIJING, Feb. 14 — Chinese authorities are determined to stop "harmful information" from spreading through the Internet, but the controls it places on Web sites and Internet service providers in mainland China do not differ much from those employed …
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Ian / Expose the Left:
Begala Pulls a Milbank, Dresses Up Like Cheney (VIDEO) — Begala spent the segment lambasting Cheney because he behaved "very negligently". He says this on the basis that Cheney knew that Willington friend was missing, and it was his [Cheney's] responsibility to know that his friend was with him …
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Ottawa Watch:
Warren Kinsella Sues for One Hundred Bazillion Dollars* — *Actually, the Liberal lobbyist and self-styled political asskicker wants $600,000. Should I write him a cheque or fight this thing? Hmm... write a cheque... fight this thing??? — Um, I think I'll fight it. — Looks like we're going to court, folks.
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Why Ann Coulter matters — (updated below) — Glenn "Instapundit" Reynolds accuses me today of "degrad(ing) the blogosphere" because I wrote a post at Crooks & Liars observing that Reynolds had done nothing to denounce the violence-advocating and epithet-spewing remarks of Ann Coulter …
National Review:
Women We Love — Who are the women National Review Online types love? That's a tall order. Maybe just a list of "Women Who Make the World Better," including, of course, NR's Kate O'Beirne, would be a good enough start. — We asked some (male) bloggers, writers, and other friends …
Chris Bowers / MyDD:
The Activist Class War Continues — I tried to make this shorter, I really did. Still, I think it is important, and I ask you to read it anyway—Chris — I have stayed almost completely silent about the Hackett-Brown primary on MyDD. I am not going to offer a candidate preference in this post …
Greyhawk / Mudville Gazette:
SALUTING THE 3RD ACR — Via email from a 3rd ACR family member, a letter from the Mayor of Tall 'Afar, Iraq to the men and women of the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment and their families. … Members of the Regiment are now returning home to Ft Carson, Colorado.
National Review:
Men We Love — Who are the men we here at National Review Online? Well we could make a pretty good list without going anywhere at all. Bill Buckley, Rich Lowry, Rick Brookhiser, Ramesh Ponnuru...see what I mean? Taking the men of NR as a given, and our husbands and fathers and sons and brothers …
